Replacement for File::mime() in Laravel 4 (to get mime type from file extension)

Question

Laravel 3 had a File::mime() method which made it easy to get a file\'s mime type from its extension:

$extension = File::extension($path);
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Answer 1

public function mimeType($path)
{
    return finfo_file(finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE), $path);
}

Ref: https://github.com/illuminate/filesystem/blob/master/Filesystem.php#L194